Guess that’s why they’re always accused of being “Liberal”

(as if that were an insult)

I refer you, gentle reader, to a program on the only national broadcast system I consider relevant today- you just knew I was going to say “NPR”.

Holy shit, that’s blasphemy!

I don’t make these things up, folks. This is the kind of crazy stuff that happens when the pious people get to write the laws.

Separation of church and state.

It protects us all.

[Edited to add:]

In case you weren’t un-convinced before

The Minnesota Atheists had created a list of 18 unconvincing arguments for the existence of a deity.

Apparently someone responded by giving them even more.

So here are 34 Unconvincing Arguments for God (pdf)

As good a reason as any to visit U of M

So a Discovery Institute fuckwad lecturer, John West, plans to make a little visit to the U of M this week.

I have three really good reasons to go:

1. a good opportunity to hear and mock the man in person
2. a chance to meet PZ Meyers
3. free beer

Plus the idea that I’m trying to make some friends up there as I will be most likely moving to the Cities soon.

Republican logic

I love Janie.
By the way, I’m glad to have moved out of a Republican state (Nebraska).

god’s fucking busy week

Submitted for your edification, a creation story on equal footing with the one in teh damn bible, but funnier.

Watch this

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

I could hug PZ Meyers

Many times.

Here’s about as good a refutation as can be made to the claims the Discovery Institute (a creationist asshat organization with lots of funding and no science) is still trying to make that it’s okay to try to “teach the controversy” about the theory of evolution.

Quick synopsis, it’s not. Not because there’s a conspiracy to keep out dissenting voices out of our science classrooms, but because those voices continue to contribute only falsehood and misdirection (smoke and mirrors, for those of you who didn’t do so good in school). Our students don’t need any more misdirection than they’re already getting (e.g. being told they’re in school to learn when the reality is that our education system is part of the Matrix).

I also wanted to point out, PZ publishes the relevant parts of the science curriculum in Minnesota, his state of residence and mine. If the biology standards in Nebraska where I grew up were this comprehensive and specific, then I am pretty sure my teachers fell short on the standards.

The standard he quotes is of high quality. You (yes, I’m looking at you) need to cast your ballots at the Federal, State, Local, and School Board levels for people who will support that the standard be taught to all students.

All I want for Christmas

kaguya_moon_labeled

Originally uploaded by thebadastronomer

Is this image on about a 30″ poster format.

Tell your congressman, the Japanese are officially kicking our ass in lunar exploration. This is a screenshot from a lunar probe they launched earlier this year, that has been sending back not grainy black-and-white images, but High Definition video from very close to the surface of the moon.

While we fart around trying to protect all the people in Iraq from killing each other because of the power vacuum we created there.

(By the way, “I told you so”)
Daniel

Teh Ten Commandments

For the idiot in the videos who asked “Since when do we have a problem with the ten commandments”, I humbly submit a direct link to them. You might be surprised that the actual text in the bible isn’t quite what you were taught in sunday school.